The actor, who performed Sixteen Departing on Seventeen in the 1965 movie, enunciated people should consider singing the musicals chants like going to a therapist

Charmian Carr, who played Liesl von Trapp in The Music of Music, has died at the age of 73.

The actors spokesman said she died on Saturday in Los Angeles, of complications from a rare form of dementia.

Carr was best known for her character in the Rodgers and Hammersteins 1965 film, in which she played the anthem Sixteen Proceeding On Seventeen. She was a college student when she auditioned for the cinema, which also starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

The actor fully hugged audiences venerate for the musical, routinely seeming at follower happenings commemorating the cinema, including sing-a-long concerts at the Hollywood Bowl.

I tell people that they should consider sing-a-long Sound Of Music like going to a therapist, she told Associated Press before a 2005 look. Its merely a kind of care. They can move around. They can dance and talk back to the screen. They can hop-skip their appointment with the decrease that week.

Carr later wrote a pair of works about her knowledge, Forever Liesl and Letters To Liesl. She went on to star with Anthony Perkins in Evening Primrose, the Stephen Sondheim television musical.

Kym Karath, who played Gretl, a very young of the Von Trapp children, wrote on Twitter: It is with infinite sadness that I share the terrible news that the precious& beautiful Charmian Carr, beautiful Liesl, has passed away.

Ted Chapin, chairman of the Rodgers and Hammerstein organisation, said in a statement: Its always sad when a member of the family guides away and in the case of the family of the movie The Racket of Music, its especially heartbreaking when it is the first of the group to go.

Seth MacFarlane, the actor and head, wrote: So very saddened to hear of the deaths among Charmian Carr. She leaves behind one of the most memorable renditions in movie history.

Carr is existed by her four siblings, her two children and four grandchildren. She is also endured by the six other actors who became part of cinematic record when the time cast as the von Trapp children.